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When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off. " Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.

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Ben Elton

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

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